LONEOS, the Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search, looks for and has discovered many minor planets and comets that approach Earth. The LONEOS 0.59-m f/1.91 Schmidt telescope, which began full-time operations in March 1998, can survey the entire sky accessible from Anderson Mesa, Arizona, every month. (M 41939) _ _.
Discovered on 4-9-1999 in Fountain Hills by Juels, C. W.